Re: [dita-comment] <stepsection> useless

[Pierre Attar <attar@tireme.fr>]

Ok, but in this idea, so what is the use of the stepsection element ?

Seems that if this element exists, it is unachieved.

Regards,  Pierre

Le 5 dÃcembre 2019 17:21:57 GMT+01:00, Michael Priestley <mpriestl@ca.ibm.com> a Ãcrit :

Have you considered nesting tasks? Once each group of steps has its own title and introductory context, it may make sense to think of them as subtasks, rather than substeps.

Michael Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM)
Taxonomy Specialist, Marketing Analytics
mpriestl@ca.ibm.com



From:        Pierre Attar <attar@tireme.fr>
To:        dita-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
Date:        2019/12/05 08:12 AM
Subject:        [EXTERNAL] [dita-comment] <stepsection> useless

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Hi,

I've a request on the way steps are made for now : the <stepsection>
element is useless in most of the cases while it is not a container per se.

In fact, many different cases, the way TW are working is something like :

<stepgroup>
    <title>
    <image>, <note>, <etc.
    <step>
    <step>
    ...
</stepgroup>
<stepgroup>
    <title>
    <image>, <note>, <etc.
    <step>
    <step>
    ...
</stepgroup>

In the current DITA version, it is impossible to reproduce this
meachnism because the <stepsection> is only a specialization of <li>.

So the only way to do that is to use step and substeps.
But as semantics is implied, a step/cmd is not the same as a
stepgroup/title.

Any thoughts on the way to solve that  I understand the difficulty as
<steps> derives from <ol> but there is may be an other derivation way to
solve that.

Regards Pierre

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